Constructing Legitimacy: The W3C's Patent Policy

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Part I -Setting the stage Chapter 1: IntroductionAgroecology is a much more rewarding (recompensado) way of life in terms of… well-being, of living well, you know? I already left the countryside one time, to live in the city, but I didn't manage to adapt to the routine, to the structure. So I want to live in the countryside, to live well.-Ariane, agroecology student and Landless activist from the Northeast Region of BrazilWe stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.The other fork of the road -the one 'less traveled by' -offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of our earth. The choice, after all, is ours to make.-Rachel Carson, Silent Spring People are by far the most difficult thing to understand within agroecology.-Reinaldo, agroecology student and Landless activist from Western Brazil OvertureApril 2018. I am sitting in the shade with Amadeus, 1 a farmer in his early fifties, close to the house he shares with his wife Lidia, their twin sons, and his older brother Isaac. They live in a southern Brazilian land reform settlement called Terra Prometida. They are members of the Rural Landless Workers' movement (MST), reputedly one of Latin America's largest social movements, and practitioners of the type of agriculture the MST advocates for: agroecology. Over on the other side 1 Interviewed 06/04/2018 in L_, Brazil. All research participants' names were changed for privacy reasons.